Extra long Podcast but it was never a dull moment. Great topics you guys discussed and I'm extremely happy About the next Podcast. Talking about some soundtracks, lol! Seriously, if there is one thing great about FFXIII and Rob may disagree is that XIII had an AMAZING soundtrack. Happy New Years everyone and stay safe!

Ha ha! It is for me j/k! As soon as I get my butt out of bed, i'm going to listen to the podcast. My work hours at the hospital are so stupid anymore. I get off at 2 am and when I get home, I get wired to play some games and not go to bed until 6:30 am, lol!

Ok guys, I just finished listening and as expected, great discussions! I liked how you talked about all genre's of video game music. Comparing Melody driven music versus Ambient. There are certain ambient songs that stick with me and that is all of Masashi Hamauzu's ambient songs. Take Wandering Flame from Final Fantasy X, truly the best ambient song i've ever heard! Actually, getting off topic for a second, the actual ambient genre is really good, notable artists such as Ulrich Schnauss is quite possibly the best in the genre, check him out if you can. I think that Xenogears could be revisited. I hope whenever Mitsuda can release the long awaited Chrono Cross arranged album, we could possibly see something good on a new Chrono game instead of hearing "If people want a new Chrono game, keep buying Chrono Trigger on the DS" thats basically what Shinji Hashimoto said,lol.

@Ramza, here is a list of my soundtrack collection (I hope i'm allowed to post links, if not I apologize!)

Soundtracks I have been really listening to are: Opoona, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Phantasy Star Online and the Intelligent Qube Soundtrack. There are certain games that have great soundtracks but there not memorable like Gears of War, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Fable III. Granted i'm not saying their bad soundtracks, just not memorable. Anyways, thanks everyone for making this podcast happen, it made me happy.

I love the PSO soundtrack-- when the game first came out and I was mortally opposed to it just because it WASN'T Phantasy Star V, it was the only part of the game I liked (I love the game now). I think they have a lot of great sounds in that soundtrack and I love the high-tech, electronic feel of it. It really feels like I always imagined a modern PS soundtrack would sound. That's to say nothing of the version 2 and PSOeIV soundtracks, which actually included some remixes and notes from the original series... which made me giddy like a schoolgirl. The PSP2 soundtrack did this as well. HAPPY ME.

Quite and interesting discussion on soundtracks. Its interesting that you bring up how thing shave become more complex and this more forgettable. NES games did have to have hooks to catch your attention like pop music. However they had a lot of odd time signatures and other features that made the music have more depth then pop. Really enjoyed it.